Mod of the year nominated

THROW PRACTICALITY OUT the window. Our first link comes from Bit-Tech, with the Mod of the Year 2006. What these guys have done to their cases is insanely cool and, oh, so very, very pretty.

On a somewhat more sedate level, Rbmods has reviewed the OCZ DDR2 PC2-8500 Platinum SLI-Ready Edition Dual Channel Memory. As with most of OCZ's products this is a performance winner with a pricey sting in the tail.

Legion Hardware has a close at CPU Scaling With The GeForce 8800 GTX, which delves into the murky world of balancing CPU and GPU capabilities with the power of Nvidia's new 8800 GTX.

So you've decided on what fans will be cooling your hardware, now Hardware.info brings us a Fancontroller roundup to help you decide the best way to control them.

Tweaktown has reviewed the Foxconn K8T890M2AA-KRS2H Motherboard. Sadly this board doesn't really deliver much, but it is very cheap and may be an option for a budget system.

XSreviews has delivered up their review of the Nova Killer Mousemat. Essentially if you don't sweat too much during marathon gaming sessions then you may want to give it a whirl.

WCCFtech has reviewed the MSI RX1650 PRO 256MB and this little card comes up trumps for its price. It's cheap, overclocks very well and looks pretty decent as well, if you're fond of a gold coloured heatsink.

If you've ever wished that Outlook could handle your news feeds as well as your email then you may want to check out BIOS magazine's review of NewsGator Inbox 2.6, which scores an impressive 9/10.

It-review has continued testing just about every board it can to bring us the AM2 MBO Round-up: Part IV and, as that one begins to draw to a close, AMD-based high-end VGA cards: Part I roundup as well.

Given how well heat pipes work for CPU and GPU cooling, it looks like Zalman have taken it to the next level with the Zalman ZM600-HP 600W Modular Heat Pipe Cooled PSU reviewed by PC Perspective. µ

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